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Whether you're just into hearing about the latest weird news or if you own a business and need the latest buzz to design a shirt around, here you'll find great resources for keeping up on popular trends and great news tidbits.
What can you use weird and wacky news for?
Weird and wacky news has more value than just for entertainment. It can be profitable as well! Learn how to use the news to make money.
- Write a press release for your business that ties into the news. People searching for the news will find your release. Don't fill it with garbage - do make it relevant and useful.
- Use current events to keep your CafePress Shop full of creative new merchandise.
- Use current events, especially silly ones, to entertain and education your students. Design projects that will allow them to test real life experiences.
- Write about current events in your blog. This will also create bonus SEO as people searching for those events can find your entries.
Yahoo! Buzz
The latest BUZZ from Yahoo!
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The Buzz Machine
Learn about interesting things that are creating a BUZZ. These are new things that you can find out about before MOST other people...including your competition!
- The near future
- Xark raised fair and unfair criticism of our work at the New Business Models for News Project. I'll...
- Get off the lawn
- There's one thing that Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Steve Brill, and I agreed on yesterday &#...
- Compare/contrast
- Tweet: Compare/contrast Rupert Murdoch on the internet (and me) then and now.
In 2005, Rupert Murdoc... - First, do no harm, government
- Relevant to today's FTC workshops (read: hearings) on the "survival" (their word… I would have...
- Media after the site
- Tweet: What does the post-page, post-site, post-media media world look like? @stephenfry, that's wha...
- The new divide: Walled v. open
- Tweet: The new divide in media is walled v. open. Here's why I think walls are bad for the builders...
- Rupert has balls
- Tweet: Rupert has balls. Well, he used to.
That's the essence of Murdoch: balls. It's the essence of...
Scientific American
Other sites where you can find great lists and weird facts
- Weird News from Mercury News
- Weird things that happen around the area.
- Weird News from MiamiHerald
- Interesting things happen in the Miami area...
- ThisIsTrue.com
- Subscribe to their newsletter.
- Daily Rotten
- News you cannot possibly use.
- Bizzare News
- Absolutely weird stuff here.
- CrazyNews.net
- Crazy news and strange pictures.
- Bizarre News from abc7.com
- Strange things going on in Los Angeles
Digg: Frontpage News
News from the Exploding Cigar
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPiggyback on News to Get Publicity
Great PR artists (and yes, it's an art) have learned to piggyback on current events and weird news stories to create their own BUZZ and get the attention of PR people. The articles below will show you how to do the same thing!
- 7 Ways to Get Publicity This Summer
- Now is your chance. While the marketing and public relations experts are off enjoying their hard-earned vacations, the media are left scrambling for much needed copy. Plan ahead, and give them what they're looking for!
- How to Tie-In With News Events to Score Publicity
- It's safe to say that we live in interesting times. It seems we hardly have a breather between wars, tragedies, scandals, epidemics, circus trials and other events that capitalize the media's attention. For the business seeking publicity, the "news hole" for more traditional stories -- new product reviews, business features, offbeat promotions -- keeps shrinking as the "big story" mentality takes hold.
- No Budget For Pr? Do It Yourself With The Help Of Technology!
- Not so long ago, small businesses and non-profit organizations across the board were faced with a tough question: do we need a Web site? We know the answer to that as the majority of small businesses and non-profits offer effective sites that not only provide information but can sell products, accept online donations, and raise awareness.
- Successful Promotion is a State of Mind
- Every good marketing plan should have a section on ongoing promotion and publicity, which outlines ways of reaching your target market. These tools can do many of the same things paid advertising is supposed to do, at a fraction of the cost. With an on-going publicity strategy, you can enhance your image and bring in new business.
- Using Publicity As A Creative Marketing Tool
- Publicity is an important and often overlooked tool of creative selling; and a more cost-effective way of reaching your target audience than advertising. With the inherent third-party endorsement of the media implied in every editorial story, a news or feature article in a newspaper, magazine, or on television or radio, is an infinitely more credibly-perceived communications message than an ad or commercial. Publicists less frequently are favored with hard news stories...
- Who's Your Target Market?
- Have you ever attended a seminar expecting that it will either eliminate or reduce doubt, confusion, ignorance or fear? Most everything taught in seminars is designed to do one or more of those things. If you're like most of us, you've returned more than once from an event without the solutions you sought.
Engadget Yourself
Find out what's new and hot with technology and gadgets. It's a wonderful, widget wonderland.
- Boxee Box coming Q2 2010, D-Link revealed as hardware partner
- Like a good one-two punch, now that Boxee Beta has been unveiled, here comes a glimpse of the compan...
- Boxee Beta unveiled: refreshed UI, DirectX support, and new content partners
- Boxee's growing up! The media center's hit beta status, and with the new Greek letter comes a revamp...
- iriver takes the leash off new black Hello Kitty PMP
- iriver's newest dedicated PMP is something to behold. A shiny black (with gold accents!) version of...
- Squibble portable Braille interface is clever, beautiful
- We've been seeing some interesting devices aimed at making life easier for the blind recently, but n...
- Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
- Have you checked into Engadget's massive 2009 Holiday Gift Guide? If not, you're making the biggest...
Where do you get your weird news from?
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Jun 22, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
- Lots of good tips here! I'm featuring this on my Squid Angel Diary this week.
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- LindaJM LindaJM Apr 9, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
- I subscribe to Reuter's "Oddly Enough" report... and I occasionally use these news stories as inspiration for my fiction writing!
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- packetlog packetlog Sep 23, 2008 @ 8:12 am
- hi kimberley, nice lens. have you checked http://www.forteantimes.com/ ? it's where the weird news is !!
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- totalhealth totalhealth Aug 15, 2008 @ 9:34 am
- Nice lens. Lots of good links
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- RickPhillips RickPhillips Aug 15, 2008 @ 6:10 am
- I think my lens /anomalyman -- #3 in news today - offers that Wacky element.
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